God's Will and the World

September 21, 1978
Kamikawa, Japan

canning the vast expanse of the history of God's providence, we come
to realize that it took not just 6,000 years, but tens of thousands
and even millions of years, in order to restore a single individual in
the sinless likeness of the original person, Adam.. For this purpose,
many individuals, families, clans, and nations sacrificed themselves
selflessly down through the millennia. The person who came on the
foundation of this selfless sacrifice was the Messiah. Then, what is
the mission of the Messiah? First, it is to be a man who measures up
to the original principles characterizing mankind before the fall. The
sinlessness of Adam is thus recreated. Next, that of Eve is recreated
by Adam.

Therefore, it is an awesome event when Adam and Eve are restored and
both of them stand in front of God, are blessed, and go through a host
of indemnity conditions. Billions of people who sacrificed themselves
throughout history are watching us critically from the spiritual
world. They think that if they were in our situation, they would not
do many of the things we are doing now, and, especially, which Japan
and the world at large are doing. The concern of these spirit people
shows that any problem is not the problem of one single individual but
is a cosmic problem.

You are here as Blessing candidates but what condition do you have for
being blessed? In many cases, only two or three years have passed
since you joined the movement. Spiritually, in the sight of God, you
have been like worms in muddy water and you have not yet internalized
the principles concerning God-centered relationships. To ignore a
woman is the same as to ignore Mother. To ignore a mother is the same
as to ignore a father and heaven.

A person who cannot understand that he must live in a web of such
relationships is not worthy of living. That kind of person causes
problems for his good ancestors over 70 generations. If he goes to the
spiritual world, it is worse than hell for him. The Unification Church
is trying to restore even hell through teaching how to live God-
centeredly. However, there is virtually no way to save a person who
tramples the parents' perfection level heart, treating them
contemptibly and spurning the parents' love. If there is a way of
salvation for that kind of person, it is only after the fulfillment of
God's ideal. But, in one sense, a person who tramples on a heart of
love is never forgiven and never saved. After the third 7-year course,
reblessing will never take place.

The teaching of the Bible is that a person who commits adultery is
stoned to death. Those who are blessed by heaven, and who then are
unfaithful, separate, and remarry on their own, leaving their lineage
on the earth, pose a very serious problem about which I am very
worried. Should that kind of adulterous person exist in the Garden of
Eden? Should that kind of person be forgiven in the establishment of
the ideal Heavenly Kingdom? There is no principle which allows things
like that. A wife who is unfaithful to her husband, or a husband who
is unfaithful to his wife cannot turn his or her face to the universe.
They are the very people who totally violate the sphere of heart. Such
people have nowhere to go to be at peace.

For a man, his wife represents mother, elder sisters, younger sisters,
and, indeed, all women of the world. To love a wife who has such a
significance means to love all races of humanity, all women, and one's
mother, elder sister, and younger sister in the home. Accordingly, the
family is the "basic training" center that educates people in human
love. Therefore, to be trusted and to live a happy life in a family
means to live a happy life as the center of the entire universe and to
be situated at the center of happy love. There is nothing meaningful
without love. Likewise for a woman. Her husband represents father,
elder brothers, younger brothers, and all men on earth. This is our
ideal of the family.

Passing on their love

he reason why parents desire their children to marry is because they
want their children to pass on the love they inherited from them, the
parents. Parents will die sometime, so they seek to leave their
substance to their descendants. Parents need their descendants, since
love should last forever and is the highest desire of mankind. Because
parents leave behind such a precious thing, they can proudly go in
front of God in the spiritual world. The family is the: place where
they can accomplish leaving behind a wonderful heritage of love.
Through the bonds of love generated in the family, people can go to
the Heavenly Kingdom. Without learning such embracing love, it is
absolutely impossible to go to heaven.

If a man is born not because of his own wishes, then by whose? By the
wish of his father and mother? No. A man is born by the wish of
heaven. A person is born due to the love of his parents, who are
heaven's proxies. In essence then, when a person is conceived, he
receives all of the love of the universe, and is born as the being who
stands at the central position of the entire universe. Man is born by
love, and is meant to grow by love, to live by love, to be loved and
to give love. This is the highest purpose of our life. It doesn't
matter whether you conquer the world or even the cosmos. To fulfill in
your own family the mission of love, which is the center of the
universe, is the most wonderful thing. The purpose of creation is the
perfection of the four position foundation of the family centering on
love.

In human relationships as well, we should think in that way. I under-
stand that when a husband and wife start married life, sometimes they
don't feel comfortable together. But when they confront the conjugal
relationship with much stronger confidence, they can grow into the
ideal.

You do not have enough gratitude for the Blessing. Satan challenged me
throughout my life in order to destroy the foundation of the Blessing.
A person of adulterous tendencies cannot take responsibility for
heaven. A man whom his wife cannot trust is never trusted in the
world, either.

We must overcome temptation

hen we confront this world centering on the heavenly Principle, only
the firm and strong things can remain. We are now in the midst of a
battle in which we must expand the realm of goodness by applying the
Principle. In this battle, we must overcome not only temptation from
men, but also numerous temptations and tests from Satan. Satan, who
has been accusing God throughout the 6,0.0.0 years of biblical
history, has great power and subtlety. Most people are defeated by
him. The reason why I myself could proceed successfully until the
present is because I clearly knew the Principle, the heavenly
Principle. That is why I'm not snared by temptation.

I am nearly 60 years old and do not have such a long time left on
earth. Thinking about this point, we must establish a universal
tradition in the world. Having established that tradition to a certain
extent, I am returning to Korea for a period of time.

God has been working so hard until now centering on this problem of
restoring love and loving relationships within the family. It is
because of this problem that the people of Israel were ruined. God has
been working so hard in order to let the Unification movement live.
The most central issue of letting the Unification movement live is
letting the family live. The blessed families, from God's point of
view, have such a significance. The director of the family department
must understand this very well and provide good education on that
topic. I'm doing this at the risk of my life for the sake of the human
race, which is falling into a ruinous condition, I am opening a new
way, repairing people one by one and letting them live. This is God's
dispensation. This is the repair factory of the family and the repair
factory of love.

Strictly speaking, those among you who have indulged in premarital sex
are not really qualified to start a blessed family. The fact that you
have written a letter longing for your lover is itself a shameful
thing. We can say so from the point of view of the Principle. In spite
of this Principle, Japan is engulfed in chaos. Young people are
totally confused like animals. And it is you — who have a background
of being that kind of people who are now going to be blessed! If you
presume to receive the Blessing of the Unification Church without
repentance, you are utterly in error. My mission is to restore virgin
men and women in front of God. This Blessing that is going to be given
involves a special forgiveness. I declared previously that the
Blessing would not take place until we finished the third 7-year
course.

Without solving these ethical problems, the Unification Church cannot
fulfill its mission on the earth. It is our task to clean up this
corrupt world and create a clean one. Then, why has the kind of person
appeared who casually, unrepentantly asks to be reblessed? He has no
qualification to say, "Rebless me, Father, please." I never imagined
such a mission for myself. Now, however, we are engaged in the 21-year
course of restoration, and many of the world's constraints upon us
cannot end until the third. 7-year course. So I have to burden myself
with and solve that problem.: But after the third 7-year course, there
will no longer be reblessing.

After 1960, radical changes began to occur throughout the world. This
was simply due to God's dispensation centering on the Unification
Church. Today's historians do not know why history has entered a
period of such enormous flux. It is because of this small Unification
Church.

You should be an example

our Blessing is for the purpose of setting an example for the rest of
the world. I clearly know what conditions will be most beneficial for
people in the spirit world, for those presently alive, and for future
generations. Thus, I have clearly understood the providential
significance of your Blessing, and upon this understanding I am
initiating it. It is your mission to understand its significance just
as vividly as I do and to live a blessed life in accordance with that
understanding, examining yourself constantly to see that your way of
life conforms with the way you know you should be living.

We are all brethren. If you have a disabled person among your brothers
and sisters, it is proper that compassionate love should well up in
your heart and you should sacrifice yourself to care for the
individual. Parents feel that way, so to sacrifice yourself, following
the example of the parents, is the way of filial piety. This is the
Principle. In the case of the Blessing, Mother and I are in the
position of parents. In this situation, if you stand in our position
and look on your spouse-to-be, who may not be nice looking, who may be
of below average intelligence, and very short in height, you should
feel very loving toward that "child" of ours. It is the parents' heart
to view a child from the standpoint of the heart of heaven and to love
that child more than anybody else.

I take responsibility for blessed people eternally — not just for a
lifetime. If they go to the spiritual world, I will guide and take
responsibility for them. To be blessed means to have an eternal
relationship with me.

If I go to Korea, I feel like the father of Korea. I have the
experience of severe torture at the hands of imperial Japan. If I
think about that, it is conceivable that I might hold a grudge against
the nation of Japan. But I don't think in that way. When Japan was
defeated at the end of World War II, I contacted all of my former
torturers one night and told them that they faced great danger if they
remained in Korea. Then I helped put their luggage on their vehicle
and sent them off. Although Japan had been an enemy country up until
that time, I knew that it would become a brother in the future because
of God's will. So I determined to forgive Japan which was not the
"reasonable" thing to do at that time, since Japan had persecuted
Korea so terribly. But I knew so strongly that Japan would work for
God's will together with Korea. Now thousands of Japanese members are
following me at the risk of their life.

It is the same as in my college life. There is nowhere I didn't go,
from the shipyards of Kawasaki to the slums around Sanya. I know Japan
very well. The Communist Party is working hard to destroy Japan, but I
am doing everything I can for the sake of the future of Japan. As it
stands now, Japan has little hope for the future because there are few
young people who can inherit and pursue this work of building up the
nation. In Japan, today, in elementary school or in middle or high
school, there are some who even reject saluting the national flag. If
there is a problem which we should worry about in Japan, it is not the
economic problem, it is not the political problem, but it is the
problem of finding young people who can build up the nation. I've been
thinking in that way for decades. I've determined to raise up such
young people who can not only take on the nation building
responsibility, but also be able to develop a commitment to build up
the world. We cannot find such young people except in the Unification
Church. Here, we have the theoretical foundation to achieve the
perfection of the individual, the perfection of the family, the
perfection of the community, the perfection of the nation, the
perfection of the world, the perfection of the cosmos, up until the
liberation of God. To reach the sphere of God's love we have to go
through all those stages, even if we die on the way.

I have been consistent

hirty years ago in Korea, people did not consider Reverend Moon of
the Unification Church to be even a human being. I was dealt with in a
miserable way, indeed. But there is not much difference between my
personality today and at that time. Now I am nearly 60 years old. But
at that time, as today, I was full of courage and vitality and was a
very trustworthy person. But I was treated like the scum of the earth.

Why did things go that way? Clearly, because there is Satan. The
sphere of Satan and of Cain is never satisfied until they beat the
realm of Abel to death. Ironically, however, they do want Abel to
appear again. This is the heart of Satan. Because of this reason, I've
been accepting without complaint and digesting all the persecution
that has come my way from thirty years ago until today. Facing all the
persecution head on, I have been fighting with perseverance and will
power in order to overcome it. I'm a man who has very strong will
power. Once I determine to do something, I go forward, even at the
risk of my life. There isn't much difference between my body and
yours. Any difference between us lies in the realm of thought and will
power. I am strong because I have a way of thinking which is not only
for the moment, but which extends to all of past, present, and future
history and to the whole human race. In addition to that, I structure
my thinking according to the pattern of God's dispensation.

Thinking about that point, if I fail, it is not only I who fail. In
that event, the whole human race would have no future and the ideal of
the restoration of the cosmos would be destroyed and God Himself would
be profaned. I know these consequences very well. Therefore, even if I
receive tremendous persecution, persecution in thousands of ways and
by millions of people, I stand up without flinching for the sake of
the human race and in order not to profane God's name. This is the way
I think.

It was the same when I left for the United States. Nobody knew of my
departure from Korea on Dec. 18, 1971. But I had a plan with God in my
mind as to what to do for the world-level course. In the beginning,
the American people thought that a Korean man, coming to give speeches
without knowing anything about the Western world, would never be suc-
cessful. However, I was perfectly victorious in this long battle in
the United States, and I also just established the European foundation
in England. I'm going back to Korea for a 40 day vacation before I
return to the United States. I stopped off in Japan for this Blessing.
But you have the attitude of enjoying the Blessing for yourselves, not
for God. It is true, even if you make excuses to the contrary.
Yesterday, I came to Japan after riding in an airplane for 24 hours.
I've come through here just overnight. It is really something, then,
for which to be grateful. I'm even doing this at the risk of my life.
But I have suspicions about how grateful you are feeling.

Concerning this Blessing, the spiritual world will kneel down to me in
an expression of gratitude. You don't understand the Blessing as
having such a significance — a significance that would make you choke
with gratitude. You think as you like. If even you members think this
way, I certainly have a lot to do to restore the world, don't you
think so?

A woman must be careful

hen a man feels embarrassed, he brings his hand to his chin. A woman
covers her mouth with her hand, coughing delicately. It is noteworthy
that Western ladies behave in the same way. This means that a woman
has to be careful about her mouth. In the family, the problem is
usually the woman. Women speak very quickly, like a motorcycle
revving. So a woman must be careful with her mouth. Then how about
men? A man has to have authority. He must be a person who has the
authority with which he can judge evil people.

The more people come to know the meaning of the Blessing, the more
they will be thankful to you. Please become a wonderful couple and
make a wonderful family that you can be proud of at any place, at any
time. But the weak, shallow, ungrateful type of person whom we saw
today is no good. Everyone has a tendency to become that kind of
person. I have a lot of experience of my trust being betrayed. If
circumstances are a little disadvantageous, a man tends to run away.
and if they are advantageous, a man feels like returning. That's the
reality of man. You're the same, aren't you? You have it written on
your face. History shows this and reality shows this. Even the 12
disciples of Jesus ran away. The 12 disciples were better people than
you. Man is indeed a weak being.

Depending on the depth of the heartistic standard between husband and
wife and depending on their degree of unity, a certain quality of
child is born. Therefore, to become parents is not an easy matter. And
to become a wife or a husband is also really an awesome thing.

The history of the Unification Church's Blessing started in the midst
of battle. Satan's world was crazy to oppose it. But now in Korea,
those who opposed us are now members of the church. In Korea, people
gave a nickname to the Unification Church: "mass weddings." Let's
establish such a tradition.